书名：The Call of the Wild 野性的呼唤
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1080
作者：Jack London杰克·伦敦
出版社名称：Collins Classics
出版时间：2011
语种：英文
ISBN：9780007420230
商品尺寸：11.2 x 1 x 17.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：144 （以实物为准）

The Call of the Wild《野性的呼唤》描述了一个关于动物与人性的故事。作者Jack London（杰克•伦敦）把自己在加拿大Yukon地区生活的亲身经历加以改写，把视角转化在主角小狗巴克身上，创造出这部耐人寻味的经典小说，一经发表就震惊文学界，被翻译成80多种语言，也被列入大学必读文学作品之一。
推荐理由：
1.作品的亮点是从自然的角度展现人性的特点，发人深思，以为深远，值得一读；
2.英国《卫报》推荐百大文学作品第35位；
3.史诗般的语言，大量的自然景色描写，赋予了读者无限的想象；
4.全书采用轻型环保纸印刷，体积轻巧，适合随身携带，随时阅读；
5.柯林斯经典系列，含历史背景及作者介绍（Life & Times），后附英语词汇注释（Glossary of Classic Literature），生词表采用《柯林斯英语词典》的解释，有助于读者学习理解。

First published in 1903,The Call of the Wildis regarded as Jack London’s masterpiece. Based on London’s experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.The Call of the Wildfalls into the genre of animal fiction, in which an animal is anthropomorphized and given human traits.
“If nothing else makes Mr. London’s book popular, it ought to be rendered so by the complete way in which it will satisfy the love of dog fights apparently inherent in every man.”—The New York Times
“The making and the achievement of such a hero [Buck] constitute, not a pretty story at all, but a very powerful one.”—The Atlantic Monthly
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故事的主人翁是一只名为巴克的牧羊犬，讲述了它从文明的人类社会回到狼群原始生活的过程。从小生活在温室环境中的巴克被偷着拐卖到原始荒野当雪橇狗。恶劣的生存环境锻炼了巴克，他在历练中不断成长，换了一个又一个主人，终于通过战胜狗王斯匹茨而赢得了拉雪橇狗群中的头把交椅。当残暴的哈尔将巴克打得遗体鳞伤、奄奄一息时，约翰·桑顿的解救让巴克感受到温暖并决定誓死效忠恩主，但恩主的遇害彻底打碎了巴克对于人类社会的留恋，从而促使巴克坚定决心，毅然走向荒野，回归自然。
“Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and… he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.”
Stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California, Buck is sold to dog traders and soon finds himself surrounded by cruelty. As misfortune besets him, a saviour appears in the shape of John Thornton. Indebted to his new master, Buck remains by Thornton’s side, protecting him with fierce loyalty. However, despite his devotion, Buck towards the lawless and harsh wilderness,The Call of the Wildremains as exciting an adventure today as when it was first published.

杰克·伦敦，（Jack London），美国著名的现实主义作家，生于旧金山。从1900年起，他连续发表和出版了许多小说，讲述美国下层人民的生活故事，揭露资本主义社会的罪恶。他的作品大都带有浓厚的社会主义和个人主义色彩。他的作品在全世界都广为流传，是广受中国读者欢迎的外国作家之一。他一生著述颇丰，16年中留下了19部长篇小说、150多篇短篇小说以及大量文学报告集，还写了3个剧本以及相当多的随笔和论文。著名的有《马丁·伊登》《野性的呼唤》《白牙》《热爱生命》等小说。他是世界文学史上较早的商业作家之一，因此被誉为商业作家的先锋。
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works includeThe Call of the WildandWhite Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories “To Build a Fire”, “An Odyssey of the North”, and “Love of Life”.

Chapter 1 Into the Primitive一路向北      
Chapter 2 The Law of Club and Fang棍棒与犬牙法则
Chapter 3 The Dominant Primordial Beast支配一切的原始兽性
Chapter 4 Who has won to Mastership谁是老大
Chapter 5 The Toil of Trace and Trail拉雪橇的艰辛
Chapter 6 For the Love of a Man为了一个男人的爱
Chapter 7 The Sounding of the Call呼唤之声

Old longings nomadic leap,
Chafing at custom’s chain;
Again from its brumal sleep
Wakens the ferine strain.

Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half-hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached by graveled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miler’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon.